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...Walgreens: Drugstores have stopped their decline among all income groups, by reclaiming customers looking for cosmetics, skin care and over-the-counter drugs, according to WSL Strategic Retail's How America Shops 2008 survey. Walgreens leads the drugstore sector in sales and profits with 1,600 24-hour stores (out of their 6,237 outlets), convenient locations and easy online access. In the first quarter of 2008, the Deerfield, Ill.-based chain reported a 5.5% increase in earnings and a record $14 billion in sales...
...years of experience. Yet the crazy thing was, there were big mistakes in all areas. The organization didn't work, and not because we don't know Milan. The problem was, the spirit didn't come over." Once in charge, Sälzer reconnected the company's most fashion-forward sector to its Metzingen DNA. Today, womenswear generates an estimated $263 million for the company. While Sälzer is pleased with that, "I don't want to have this experience again," he says...
...Senor spent the 1990s in the public sector, serving in foreign policy advisory and communications roles. After graduating from HBS in 2001, Senor worked at the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm peopled with members of the first Bush administration, until 2003. He then co-founded Rosemont Capital, a private equity firm, with HBS classmate Christopher D. Heinz...
...graduating from HBS in 1979, Foley worked at McKinsey & Co. and Citigroup’s venture capital arm before founding NTC Group, a private equity firm, in 1985. He was tapped by the Bush administration in August 2003 to serve as the Coalition’s director of private-sector development...
...Prasad R. Menon, a managing director at Tata Power who participated in a panel on expanding India’s energy production, described the current situation in India: Energy is in constant shortage as demand continues to expand. Menon blamed the government for not providing entrepreneurs in the energy sector with clear policy guidelines for setting up their new power plants. “The greatest obstacle to energy independence in India is the lack of political will needed to get decisions made faster,” Menon said in an interview. “Everyone in India knows that...